Posted on 06/29/2020 5:40:58 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
China has docked what looks to be a Type 071 warship in service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy at Woody Island, China’s main administrative center and military base in the South China Sea’s Paracel Islands.
The ship will likely be used in in a large-scale naval exercise planned in the area this week. On Saturday, China’s Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) announced a military exercise would take place in the South China Sea from July 1 to 5.
Satellite imagery seen by RFA shows a ship fitting the profile of the Type 071 (also called the “Yuzhao-class”) sitting in harbor at Woody Island as of June 27. The ship was not there on June 25.
The Type 071 is a landing platform dock capable of carrying helicopters, a battalion of marines, amphibious vehicles and other cargo for amphibious warfare. It frequently features prominently in military exercises or drills involving the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and China’s burgeoning Marine Corps (PLANMC).
Woody Island is China’s biggest outpost and military base in the South China Sea, located in the Paracel archipelago in the region’s northern half.
The island is disputed between Vietnam, China, and Taiwan, but occupied by China, which has built a settlement there and formally incorporated the artificial island into a local government district that covers the Paracel Islands and Macclesfield Bank. Macclesfield Bank is claimed by the Philippines.
Woody Island is a frequent stop for the China Coast Guard (CCG) and infamous paramilitary fishing fleets on their way to other parts of the region to assert China’s claim to nearly the entire South China Sea. However, navy warships are rarely seen in Woody’s harbor, and based on RFA's existing satellite imagery this is the first time the Type 071 has shown up there.
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Don’t worry, I’m sure it’s nothing.
What country has jurisdiction over Woody Island? It doesn’t look like it has many inhabitants. It’s just southwest of Australia.
Hardly a big deal.
It’s an amphibious transport dock (LPD)
http://globalmilitaryreview.blogspot.com/2013/06/chinese-type-071-yuzhao-class.html
A ship and an airplane
Whatever...
Poor resolution, but it looks like a amphip. Type 71 is an LPD according to open sources. Kinda looks like three LCAC-types just in front of the bow. Interesting.
*Amphib.
When the Chinese invaded the Paracels and ejected the South Vietnamese one of the world’s best breeding grounds for sea turtles was ruined.
[What country has jurisdiction over Woody Island? It doesn’t look like it has many inhabitants. It’s just southwest of Australia.]
LOL.
Woody Island. Izzat the one Bill Clinton, Epstein and the Prince frequented?
Type 071 amphibious transport dock (Yuzhao-class)
Type 071 amphibious transport dock (Yuzhao-class)
Woody Island?
Didn’t Epstein own that?
I see what you did there. lol
The civilized world will someday regret having opened their ports to Chinese made cr@p.
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